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World Class Cocktail Book Timeline

This document provides a timeline of important events and publications related to literature and bartending from 1605 to 2015. Some key literary works mentioned include Don Quixote from 1605, A Christmas Carol from 1843, and The Great Gatsby from 1925. Important bartending publications include the first cocktail book from 1862 by Jerry Thomas and The Savoy Cocktail Book from 1931. The timeline shows the development of cocktails and mixed drinks alongside major historical events and works of literature over several centuries.

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World Class Cocktail Book Timeline

This document provides a timeline of important events and publications related to literature and bartending from 1605 to 2015. Some key literary works mentioned include Don Quixote from 1605, A Christmas Carol from 1843, and The Great Gatsby from 1925. Important bartending publications include the first cocktail book from 1862 by Jerry Thomas and The Savoy Cocktail Book from 1931. The timeline shows the development of cocktails and mixed drinks alongside major historical events and works of literature over several centuries.

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LITERATURE

1605

1843

Don Quixote

A Christmas
Carol
Charles Dickens

Miguel de
Cervantes

Considered the worlds first


novel, this Spanish classic is
set in the region of La Mancha
nowadays full of vineyards
rather than windmills and has
inspired the name of a Mexican
distillery.

This classic work hands out


plenty of Christmas cheer
eventually as characters sup
the very British Smoking
Bishop toddy.

1849

California gold
rush begins

1879

1876

Thomas A.
Edison
invents
practical
electric
light.

Alexander
Graham Bell
patents
the
telephone

BARTENDING

1600

1820

Oxford Night
Caps
Richard Cook

The first ever published book


on mixed drinks, made for the
students of Oxford University
hence theres plenty of
Punches, Possets and Cups.

1862

How to Mix
Drinks
Jerry Thomas

Famous for his showmanship


that included mixing flaming
drinks, Thomas also produced
this first US cocktail book, a
slim volume that includes the
Blue Blazer.

1882

1891

The first how-to of bartending,


this oft reprinted and coveted
guide covers all aspects of
running a bar and includes
classic cocktail the Marguerite.

Bartender William Boothby


gives us this flavour of West
Coast bartending just prior to
Prohibition, providing a great
reference for traditional
recipes of the period.

The New and


Improved
Bartenders
Manual
Harry Johnson

American
Bartender
William T
Boothby

LITERATURE

1897

1912

1925

Edmond
Rostand

Thomas Mann

F Scott
Fitzgerald

Cyrano de
Bergerac

A French play written by a


man who had a cocktail
specially created for him, the
Chanticleer (London dry gin,
vermouth, orange liqueur and
egg white blend).

Death in
Venice

One of the all-time classics of


German literature, it has
inspired a Campari and
Prosecco mixed drink, while
the slightly mournful lead
character enjoys fresh
pomegranate juice.

The Great
Gatsby

Gin Rickeys full of ice at parties


on Long Island thrown by a
mysterious industrialist: this
classic work oozes 1920s-era
atmosphere and cocktails.

1920-1933
Prohibition was
in place
in the
United
States

BARTENDING

...

1896

Recueil
Pratique de
Toutes
Boissons
Amricaines
et Anglaises
Louis Fouquet

Regarded as the first French


cocktail book, written by
Fouquet when he was head
bartender at the Criterion in
Paris, it inspired the popularity
of mixed drinks after
phylloxera struck French vines.

1917

Recipes for
mixed drinks
Hugo Ensslin

The German-born bartender


produced this guide just
before Prohibition, and its a
fine compilation of the drinks
and techniques of the early
part of the 1910s.

1927

The Barflies
and Cocktails
Harry
McElhone
Harry responded to Prohibition
by opening Harrys in Paris,
said to be the birthplace of the
French 75, the Monkey Gland
and the Bloody Mary and he
still managed to write this
classic work.

1931

The Savoy
Cocktail Book
Harry Craddock

Still in print today, this is one


of the all-time classics, the
standard reference for recipes
of the 1920s and 30s such as
the Corpse Reviver.

LITERATURE

1952

The Old Man


and the Sea

1953

Casino Royale
Ian Fleming

Ernest
Hemingway

1951

Color television
is first introduced

A tale inspired by Cuba,


unfolding as a paean to
simplicity with a description of
a sparkling sea, small fishing
boats, plus a Daiquiri never far
away.

Martinis made incorrectly


(according to some), but the
famous secret agent also
enjoys his Americanos and the
occasional Scotch and soda as
he chases down Cold War
villains.

2002

The Euro enters


circulation

BARTENDING

...

2015

1935

Floridita
Cocktail Book
Constante
Ribalaigua
Vert
A promotional work by the bar,
written by the man believed to
have created the Frozen
Daiquiri that inspired the craze
for Cuban culture in the US.

1948

The Fine Art


of Mixing
Drinks
David A
Embury

After the demise of the


professional bartender, this is
one of the first and the
finest-ever cocktail books by
a layman, the enthusiast lawyer
Embury.

2002

The Craft of
the Cocktail
Dale DeGroff

2014

The Bar Book:


Elements of
Cocktail
Technique
Jeffrey
Morgenthaler

After the cocktail renaissance


of the 1990s comes this
modern bible of a cocktail
book, written by ex-Rainbow
Room employee, now industry
celebrity, Dale DeGroff. The US
bartender gives great tips on
setting up a bar not just
making drinks and has many
a tale to tell amidst the recipes.

A recent work set to become a


classic; this book takes a
technical approach by
breaking down drinks into their
essentials, and then building
them back up again.

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